TESTBED - Port User Interface Feedback.

[Beeekonda]

2 minutes ago, no one said:

First congratulations to the intial port UI interface. It was a little difficult in the beginning to use but now it is all good.

Question. Each doubloon weights 5000 . So it is impossible to carry them? Do they have a purpose in the testing?

 

51 minutes ago, admin said:

2 currencies. we need to update the base gold description and icons. 

silver (old gold)
doubloons (new gold) (combat marks+pvp marks)

we know its confusing and will fix it before patch hits live servers. 

5000 kg  is just the same as current Marks weight

[z4ys]

Its now annoying to buy the right guns. Before I could see directly what gun class i need. Now I need to hover over each solt to see the gun class

 

Maybe even grey out the guns that i cant even equip when both windows are open

And I need 3 windows to do 1 easy thing. To equip guns

Edited September 25, 2018 by z4ys

[Ink]

Captains, the testbed server is shutting down at the moment and will go live again tomorrow (ETA is unknown at the moment).

[o Barão]

Can someone explain what the academy and forge buildings do?

[Aster]

[SnovaZdorowa]

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Edited September 25, 2018 by BanMeAgain

[Angus MacDuff]

Just now, Banished Privateer said:

I never liked the "class" system and it was always confusing me and everyone around. I always told people to speak to me in poundage, because I don't recognize gun classes very well.

Example:

-Hey Banished, could you give me 20 carronades class 3?

-Sorry, I don't know what class 3 is, can you say in poundage?

-OK, sure! I need twenty 32pd carronades.

Just about the dumbest thing in the game

[z4ys]

3 minutes ago, Banished Privateer said:

I never liked the "class" system and it was always confusing me and everyone around. I always told people to speak to me in poundage, because I don't recognize gun classes very well.

Example:

-Hey Banished, could you give me 20 carronades class 3?

-Sorry, I don't know what class 3 is, can you say in poundage?

-OK, sure! I need twenty 32pd carronades.

sure i dont mind but atm you just see the amount of guns right away but not what kind.

[Christoph]

18 minutes ago, Ink said:

Captains, the testbed server is shutting down at the moment and will go live again tomorrow (ETA is unknown at the moment).

noooo. i m on the way to kpr 

[jodgi]

1 hour ago, Tom Farseer said:

Problem: Symbolic Interfaces rarely are intuitive.

Maybe, but you get used to it. I really like the minimalistic symbolic stuff in port and ow UI. 

[Beeekonda]

16 minutes ago, Banished Privateer said:

I never liked the "class" system and it was always confusing me and everyone around. I always told people to speak to me in poundage, because I don't recognize gun classes very well.

Example:

-Hey Banished, could you give me 20 carronades class 3?

-Sorry, I don't know what class 3 is, can you say in poundage?

 -OK, sure! I need twenty 32pd carronades.

I also don't like that now I have to mouseover the gun slot to know what exactly fits in here

[jodgi]

2 minutes ago, Beeekonda said:

I also don't like that now I have to mouseover the gun slot to know what exactly fits in here

Ye, just look how messy it gets with exhaustive explanatory text.

[Cecil Selous]

16 minutes ago, rediii said:

 What is a Plot?

Ein Grundstück

[Beeekonda]

1 minute ago, jodgi said:

Ye, just look how messy it gets with exhaustive explanatory text.

Made on Paint. I'm sure a person with proper skills can make it look good. 

[z4ys]

3 minutes ago, jodgi said:

Ye, just look how messy it gets with exhaustive explanatory text.

make it slowly flashing and switching between amount and class

 

[jodgi]

3 minutes ago, Beeekonda said:

I'm sure a person with proper skills can make it look good.

From my experience a person with skill is more likely to say "you can't make clutter look pretty. I want to do pretty not ugly."

[IceBurg]

Is it just me or does anyone else miss actually "Being" in port, As if one were in a town, i like the idea of being able to see my ship at port, but the open world background kinda gets in the way, for instance, maybe, have trading done in town with a static background, and then park at port before sailing, to check weather and wind, seeing the boat always in open water makes it feel like you just stayed on the docks.

 

[DeRuyter]

42 minutes ago, Wraith said:

Sad that US timezone players didn't even get a chance to test.   

 

^^This - still at work 😡!

Perhaps there were some bugs that needed to be squashed. Looking forward to testing. 

[Sir Texas Sir]

7 hours ago, Powderhorn said:

Does that tie into 4K compatibility?  I'm not so rich, but I know others running 4K say the old UI text didn't scale and was too small.

The game doesn't support true fullscreen either. I take a big FPS hit when I run the game compared to other games cause it doesn't support true 4k properly too and I prefer to run the game in Fullscreen but it's not being used properly.  Maybe once they UI's are all done they can optimize the game a bit better.  I knoticed a big FPS drop when they brought OW UI into the game.

7 hours ago, no one said:

Can someone explain what the academy and forge buildings do?

Academy if I remember correctly allowed you to make labor contracts.  Forge is the new workshop where it allows you to make cannons.  I always thought workshops where needed to make other things too.  I believe we have a building for that now.  Maybe that was Academy and the labor contract thing is something else.  

6 hours ago, rediii said:

Top right, if I Hover over stuff the pop ups are below the buttons so some stuff is impossible to read

 What is a Plot?

 

You have bought a land title but haven't used it for an out post.  If you paid the 1000 coin and 2000 coin for two more tittles than it would say Plot Available in those slots too until you put an outpost down.

[Barbancourt]

 

8 hours ago, Banished Privateer said:

I never liked the "class" system and it was always confusing me and everyone around. I always told people to speak to me in poundage, because I don't recognize gun classes very well.

...and then you have poods to throw a wrench in the works.  💩

 

[admin]

14 hours ago, Banished Privateer said:

I never liked the "class" system and it was always confusing me and everyone around. I always told people to speak to me in poundage, because I don't recognize gun classes very well.

Example:

-Hey Banished, could you give me 20 carronades class 3?

-Sorry, I don't know what class 3 is, can you say in poundage?

-OK, sure! I need twenty 32pd carronades.

good point

[admin]

14 hours ago, z4ys said:

 

And I need 3 windows to do 1 easy thing. To equip guns

We plan to add context windows like with books. You will click on gun slot and it shows guns in your hold and warehouse you have that you can equip in this slot.

But i think if you did not have guns and had to buy them you also needed 3 windows. 1 You had to go to equipment screen to check for class. 2 then you went to shop and bought guns. 3 then you went back to equipment screen and equipped them. The only difference is that warehouse window opened itself even if you only needed to check your equip

Now you can click 3 shortcuts and do all at the same time. 

[z4ys]

1 hour ago, admin said:

We plan to add context windows like with books. You will click on gun slot and it shows guns in your hold and warehouse you have that you can equip in this slot.

But i think if you did not have guns and had to buy them you also needed 3 windows. 1 You had to go to equipment screen to check for class. 2 then you went to shop and bought guns. 3 then you went back to equipment screen and equipped them. The only difference is that warehouse window opened itself even if you only needed to check your equip

Now you can click 3 shortcuts and do all at the same time. 

They felt different for me at least the old version was less chaotic. The windows now are just all over the place. 

(OK maybe it's kind age of sail experience when the ship was in port and the captains desk was overstuffed with lists, bills etc)

For example the window with the surprise could be vertical for me instead of horizontal.(slots and instead on the right side the ship stats they are below)

Last but not least I really would like to be able to scale the windows. Currently I just can change the size.

Edited September 26, 2018 by z4ys

[Njord]

17 hours ago, IceBurg said:

Is it just me or does anyone else miss actually "Being" in port, As if one were in a town, i like the idea of being able to see my ship at port, but the open world background kinda gets in the way, for instance, maybe, have trading done in town with a static background, and then park at port before sailing, to check weather and wind, seeing the boat always in open water makes it feel like you just stayed on the docks.

I strongly agree. What I envisioned was something similar to the home city view of Age of Empires 3. Basically you had the scenerey of a harbour town with people and ambient noise and you had several distinctive buildings ( academy, workshop, trading company, market, harbour etc. ) that the camera would pan to, if you selected them and where you would then be able to deal with the related upgrades.

Maybe something @admin might consider for the future?

[Knobby]

Docks are absolutely massive. The entire hull of the frigate fits under them with room to spare, docks are easily as high as a threedecker. It's a real shame cus it makes the big ships look tiny.

I don't like that you need a building to craft reps, especially since reps are basically semi finished products anyway that are made to fit by the carpenter and bosun and their mates.